Napping Weirdness

Well, Jackson and I have been experimenting with naps the last week or so. I'm trying to just let HIM tell me what he wants... He's still pulling out 11-12 hour nights - which is SUCH a blessing - but his daily naps are not that great... I was thinking maybe he just needs one big fat nap in the middle of the day... Well, we've found that while 830am used to be naptime - NOW, 1100am is naptime! So - you'd think that meant a longer nap - NOPE. Still 1 1/2 hours... max. Worst part is, he wakes up sleepy and seemingly tired the rest of the day... So - I am doing some experimenting w/ his bedtime and made it a bit later (800pm now) to see if he can make up for that during the day... So fingers crossed - we'll see!

I had to put Ryan's soccer socks around his knees cuz he was getting bruises from falling on our hardwood and ceramic tiles... He didn't even know the difference.. Just kept boogying!

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Fun Family Weekend!

J loves his Aunt Carla! She gives him LOTS of attention! He gobbled it up!
I love this pic!

Funny boys! Some people say Dave and Ryan look alike - what do you think? I see it A LITTLE, but for the most part, I think Ryan resembles his momma and Dave his dad....

Dave and Carla

Jackson w/ Uncle Dave

Jackson was having the MOST fun pulling his grandma's glasses off! He just thought that was the funniest thing ever... He would just pull them off her face as soon as she got close enough and then eat them. haha... He obviously has no idea how much she spent for those!

3 Generations!

Jackson with Grandma!

J with Uncle Dave and Aunt Carla

J was always all smiles for Aunt Carla!

Jackson has definitely become a DADDY'S BOY! In a big way! I don't even compare anymore...

Family Pics, Finally!

Ryan's brother Dave and his wife Carla and Ryan's mom Carol came to Little Rock this weekend and Dave took some family pics of us with his fancy dancy camera! We just stayed in our yard but I think these pics turned out great!!!

Mommy and Baby J!

Movin and Shakin!

Jackson is DANGEROUSLY close to walking.... I'm not sure I'm ready but I'll tell you - I'm certainly ready to not have to carry this goliath baby! He's SO heavy! Anyway, here's some recent photos of our lovely one....

Quite the messy eater!

Mommy's Little Man!

Isabelle trying to get fair share of some Cheerios!

And boy, does he have a temper!!! That HAS to come from his momma! Oops!

Birthday Buddies! Jackson and Harrison, 1 Year Apart, to the day....

See Mom - I'm standing!

Twinkie Boys!

My favorite two boys!

Daddy's Paci Game w/ Jackson!

Daddy created this game with Jackson called "My Paci, Your Paci."

Jackson's 9 Month Doc Appt

Well - we had good news and bad news.... Good news is that Jackson is a healthy little boy! He weighs 20 pounds, 6 oz, 27.5 inches long. He is in the 50th percentile for height and weight and 75th percentile for head circumference. He looked absolutely adorable (as usual)! His little cold is better... much better, but the doc didn't like how raspy he still sounds after 10 days... So he gave J an antiobiotic and also asked us to do a breathing treatment w/ him... haha.. he screamed bloody murder for the longest 10 minutes ever... Ryan and I both had to restrain him while he screamed... He said that he suspects that this is all caused from the cold and nothing to be concerned about but when he asked if we have asthma in our families, I got a little concerned. We don't - but Jackson has always sort of had funny sounding breathing.... Anyway, he gave us a prescription for an inhaler so we'll start that today and hopefully, it will all just "fix" itself. This is Jackson's first cold, so I definitely don't like this - but I just pray he doesn't have anything serious (like asthma)... Here's some pics from the doc's office...

My Latest Creation...

I love the furniture setup that we have in our office (with our desk being in the middle of the room), but I have always hated how our mess of computer wires was in plain sight - it was quite an eyesore. I have been wanting to do something about it, but it took Jackson yanking on all the wires every day for me to actually do it! Here are some pictures of yet another project that I think came out pretty darn good! =)

Here is what it looked like before (kind of...). In this picture, I have already cut a hole in the desk and ran the bundle of wires through a grommet. Before I started, all those wires were just hanging over the back of the desk - YUK!

Here are all my pieces of wood with all of my cut lines marked.

I sanded down all 4 edges of the cabinet until they were round. I didn't want Jackson to hurt himself (as badly) if he were to bump into one of them!

Keisha took this very flattering picture of me as I was cutting the pieces! I used that big round chair as a template for the curved 'heat vent' that I cut into the back piece, by the way...

I spray painted the pieces black to match the desk.

I installed the cabinet in sections. Both of the side sections had a 'half door' attached to them. I used floating hinges like you would find on kitchen cabinets - that made the doors really easy to open and close.

Finally, the back goes on to seal the whole thing shut.

NO MORE WIRES SHOWING!!! YEAH!!!!

Here's the finished product from the front...